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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

TRICK OR TREAT CANDY QUIZ






The Trick or Treat Candy Quiz
Quiz by Stepfanie Romine, Staff Writer Sparks People.com

Trick or Treat: 2 mini Reese's cups are lower in calories than 2 pieces of taffy. Treat! 2 mini Reese's cups are lower in calories (80 calories, 5g fat, 10g sugars) than 2 pieces of taffy (110 calories, 1g fat, 24g sugars).

Trick or Treat: 6 Whoppers malted milk balls are lower in fat than 1 Fun Size Snickers bar. Trick! A Fun Size Snickers bar (45 calories, 2g fat, 6g sugars) contains 2 fewer fat grams than 6 Whoppers (60 calories, 2.5g fat, 8g sugars).

Trick or Treat: 22 pieces of candy corn contain fewer calories than a Fun Size Almond Joy bar. Trick! A Fun Size Almond Joy (100 calories, 5g fat, 19g sugars) is surprisingly lower in calories than 22 pieces of candy corn (140 calories, 0g fat, 28g sugars).


Trick or Treat: Which Fun Size candy bar contains the most fat? Snickers/Kit Kat/3 Musketeers. A Kit Kat has 2.5 g fat; the other two bars each contain 2 grams of fat.


Trick or Treat: A Fun Size 3 Musketeers bar is lower in calories than 14 gummi bears. A Fun Size 3 Musketeers bar (70 calories, 2g fat, 11g sugars) contains half the calories of just 14 gummi bears (140 calories, 0g fat, 22g sugars)!



Trick or Treat: One Fun Size bag of M&M's contains 120 calories. A Fun Size bag of M&M's contains 110 calories, 5g fat and 13g sugars

Trick or Treat: A quarter cup of Sun-Maid yogurt-covered raisins is lower in calories than one Fun Size bag of Skittles. A 1/4-cup serving of these yogurt-covered raisins has 130 calories while a Fun Size bag of Skittles has 80.


Which is the lowest-calorie peanut treat? 2 Mini Reese’s Cups/1 Fun Size bag of Peanut M&M’s/1 Fun Size Butterfinger bar/1 Fun Size Pay Day bar. Two mini Reese's cups contain just 80 calories. Calories in the other treats are as follows: Peanut M&M's (93), Butterfinger (100 calories), and Pay Day (90 calories).


Trick or Treat: A Fun Size pack of Starburst (2 chews) has more calories than a large banana. Starburst candies have 140 calories; a large banana has 125.


Signing off: Gee, I have a hankering for some candy Anita

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm bummed to hear about the whoppers, but joyed to hear my fav almond joy!

P.S. When should we do lunch?